Review Demo - Caroline Guitar Company Haymaker Dynamic Drive

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On the little card that functions as the Caroline Haymaker’s user manual, the Caroline crew hilariously asks, “Does the world need another overdrive pedal?” Our answer: “If it’s an overdrive as versatile as this, then why the hell not?”

Designed by Caroline’s Philippe Herndon, the Haymaker is a lot of overdrive for about 200 bucks. The three-mode circuit can deliver shades of drive ranging from super-dynamic and organic TS-meets-Fender-amp flavored OD to late ’70s pedal distortion. And the multitudinous overdrive colors in between make this a pedal that can get you out of just about any stage or studio fix.

nd Kilobyte Lo-Fi Delay over the last few years and been impressed with the quality, sound, and imaginative approach. The Haymaker is no exception. Inside you find an exquisitely ordered circuit board that’s economically organized given the number of components. A TL074 quad op amp sits at the heart of the circuit. Elsewhere, Caroline’s abundant wit and welcome sense of humor is evident in a wet/dry trim pot labeled “Don’t even think about it,” and a polite request to circuit detectives not to post the circuit online.

The control set is a fairly simple affair once you get to know it. But apparently taking a page from the vintage Orange amplifier playbook, Caroline elected to use a set of what we might as well call South Carolina hieroglyphs to denote the function of each knob. It makes adjustments tricky in the get-acquainted stage, but the control’s actual names (speaker, punch, stacks, and shape) do little to clarify matters.

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